I think this cloth is a good thing to focus on because you can slowly unroll it before you lay the cards down, which is a very evocative and almost ritualistic action.
The description of Madam Eva's tent provides a lot of inspiration for additional props: Mysterious lights, a crystal ball, and a black velvet cloth. The use of a real deck is so effective because everyone loves props. If the players feel like gabbing it up with Madam Eva about each card, trying to pry hints out of her, go ahead and respond according to the character you've built in your performance-but to add emotional texture to the scene, make her insist on total silence before she turns over the next card. Do we know where a crypt is?"), but Eva can add something about "beneath the Devil's tower" or glance nervously in its direction. Locations in Castle Ravenloft don't actually refer to the castle ("We know it's in a crypt. Specific information will make your players' ears perk up, and if your goal is to create a memorable experience, you can afford to drop a few extra hints.įor example: Many of the speeches for cards that clue It's easy to want to add merely emotional clues, to add color without giving too much away: "It is in a place of dread " "I feel the presence of mournful spirits near this item " "This place is cold and silent." But there's so little emotional contrast in Barovia that sentences like these can easily fade into the background noise of doom and gloom. The 7 of Coins, you can hint that the location of the treasure isn't very far away if you draw the 9 of Coins, Madam Eva might shake her head despondently and say "Maybe save this one for last." Having studied the book, you have some idea of what each Tarokka result can entail, and you can let this "foreknowledge" inform Madam Eva's reactions to the cards as they appear. Given the potential impact, what is the best way to make the card reading dramatic, memorable, and fun for the players (and myself)?
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I'm looking for help from those experienced running the campaign on how to spice up this moment. It's also a notable hook into the adventure, since the characters are given some sense of what they are in Ravenloft to undertake. This sets the location of certain critical items, sets the location of Strahd, and identifies a potential ally in the fight against Strahd. I finished reading the campaign book through, and I'm now assembling notes and thinking deeper about how I want to run the game.Įarly in the campaign, the players can get a Tarroka reading, much like a Tarot card reading. This is my first time with a published adventure. I'm usually a player and have only DM'd once to give our usual DM a break. I'm going to be running Curse of Strahd for my regular group.
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